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This is my 2019 Old, New and Wildcard Challenge. 12 books and 2 alternates.

New School (written 1900-1999)

Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) by Zane Grey (1872-1939)
Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck (1962) by Bill Veeck (1914-86)
The Fountainhead (1943) by Ayn Rand (1905-82).

Old School (written prior to 1900)

The Woman in White (1859) by Wilkie Collins (1824-89)
The Federalist (1787-88) by Alexander Hamilton (c.1755-1804), John Jay (1745-1829), and James Madison (1751-1836). These three USA statesmen, including the man who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817, separately wrote the 85 Federalist Papers, presented here in ascending numerical order, to gain support for the Constitution of the young nation.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) by Frederick Douglass (1817-95)

Wildcard (any date)
Somebody's Gotta Say It (2007) by Neal Boortz (born 1945)
The Art of War (c. 5th century BCE) by Sun Tzu (544-496 BCE)
The Physics of Baseball (2002) by Robert K. Adair (born 1924)
Fearful Majesty: The Life and Reign of Ivan the Terrible (1987) by Benson Bobrick (born 1947)
Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter (2012) by Frank Deford (1938-2017)
Mozart (1995) by Maynard Solomon (born 1930)

Alternates
The Odyssey (c. 8th century BCE) by Homer (c.751-651 BCE)
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (1978) by Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-89)

I like your list. I've read a couple and have read other works by Grey, Rand, and Boortz. Good luck!